Urban Village Designs works with land, people, and organizations as interconnected living systems.

I support projects that go beyond site design—integrating ecology, infrastructure, and human systems to create places that are regenerative, resilient, and able to evolve over time.

About

My name is Drake James

I’m a permaculture designer and educator with over a decade of experience working across land-based projects and organizational development.

I support projects at multiple levels—from site design to organizational structure—helping to design, guide, and refine the systems that shape how they function over time.

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LIVING SYSTEMS DESIGN

Whole-systems design for land, community, and organizations

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EDUCATION

Workshops and speaking on permaculture & living systems

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CONSULTING

Clarity and guidance for evolving projects

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LIVING LABS

Hands-on work parties and place-based learning

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Native plant installation, leafing out 3 years after being planted.

While our main goal was to create a hospitable environment for birds and bugs, aesthetics and privacy were also extremely important to us. Drake and Lucas and their team wrought an absolutely magical transformation of an urban wasteland into a rich and fascinating environment. Their design was both beautiful and extremely sophisticated in terms of creating healthy habitat. They are passionate and extremely knowledgable about biodiversity, habitat restoration, permaculture, and native plants. It’s unusual to have that sort of scientific/technical expertise combined with great design talent.

-Chris H.

Image featuring client's diverse native plant habitat in Sellwood neighborhood backyard

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We work best with clients who are ready to invest in thoughtful, long-term care of land and communities.

Everything is meant to change over time.

Seriously, nothing is stagnant.

As a landscaper over the years, I witnessed an industry obsessed with keeping things the same. Conventional landscaping is honestly pretty insane. It goes against everything we know about nature—which is in a constant state of change and evolution.

Just like we are.

So I design with this in mind. Whether we’re talking about landscapes, community agreements or organizational development, whatever system we’re looking at should be built to anticipate growth and change. It should be adaptive and able to respond as needed to internal and external conditions.

And how do we do this?

By implementing elements that support diversity and redundancy. We explore through iteration. Systems are built on strong foundations that take into consideration current as well as future potential holistic conditions (social, environmental, economic and even political). We plan for both what is and what might be.

If you’re interested in exploring ideas like succession and resiliency in your landscape, community or organization—get in touch!

*All images are from one of our design and installations located in Sellwood, Oregon*

#permaculturedesign #livingsystems #sustainabledevelopment #succession #pdx

Fire weed is taking off in our spiral rain garden right now 🌱

Speaking of fire weed, this past week we traveled to Bend and made a stop at @lazyzranch — and got to try their Fire Weed mead. This brew was truly a work of art on the palate.

But what makes this ranch even greater is their commitment to regenerative bee pastures and animal integrations.

Their whole business model is a beautiful, integrated system.

🐝 Raising their own bees and selling split colonies to their local community
🌱 Using all local and sustainable ingredients
🧠 Offering education on pollinators and conservation
🌱 Focused on building soil, habitat and diversity

These are all some of our favorite things.

So you can understand how, after tasting some of their Fire Weed mead, we’re even more excited to see it popping up in our own backyard right now—next to one of our own hives. This hardy edible perennial is a great boon to the permaculture landscape, for humans and wildlife alike!

Thanks again for having us, @lazyzranch !

#regenerativedesign #permaculture #permaculturedesign #livingsystems #fireweed

In a couple weeks, we’ll be speaking to students at Purdue University on:

Aquaponics as a Living System: Integrating Ecology, Food, and Community 🌱🐟

This past week, we spent time at Live Local Organic—a Milwaukie business that deeply reflects the kind of living systems we care about increasing through conscientious design, education and consulting.

At one level, aquaponics is straightforward:

Fish produce waste → that waste provides nutrients that feed the plants → plants contribute to water filtration → and the cycle continues.

This closed-looped system provides:

• Healthy, local food year-round
• Reduced waste by turning outputs into inputs
• Meaningful employment
• Relationship building between growers, restaurants, and community
• An alternative to unstable climate conditions and extractive agriculture

Aquaponics done at this scale works within various environmental, social and economic systems at once, and that makes aquaponics important—as one of many solutions for our future.

The questions we need to be asking as living systems practitioners include:

What systems are trying to emerge in response to the needs around us?

How many functions can we stack based off of an initial system?

How does the system interact and share resources with the systems around it?

How do these relationships provide benefit to multiple stakeholders?

This is the work we care about—developing living systems that actually work.

Looking forward to sharing more about aquaponics with students at Purdue soon.

Thanks again to Jared and the @livelocalorganic team for having me!

#aquaponics #permaculture #livingsystems #systemsthinking #regenerativedesign

Learning permaculture begins to change how you relate to the world around you—

To land.
To food.
To the systems that support life.

And that kind of understanding takes time.

This course is designed to unfold slowly over 8 months—so you can build a real relationship with a place, not just learn concepts and move on.

You’ll return to the same land each month, alongside a committed community, watching the seasons shift and your understanding deepen.

🌿 April–November 2026
🌿 Jean’s Urban Forest Farm (Portland)
🌿 Guest teachers + organic, fresh-cooked meals
🌿 Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC)

We’re also offering 2 half-tuition DEI scholarships to help make this more accessible.

If this feels like something you’ve been looking for, we’d love to have you.

Applications are open — learn more and apply via the link in bio 🌱

#permaculture #pdc #permaculturedesigncourse #pdxpermaculture #permaculturedesigncertificate

One man’s waste is another person’s treasure.

In this case? Old whiskey barrels turned planter boxes.

The insides were charred to preserve them for longer, while also adding a biochar to benefit soil and plants.

At the base, we stacked chunks of wood and sticks, as a mini hugelkultur addition. Over time this wood will provide extra nutrients to the system (that is, the on-going relationships between plants, soil communities and the other elements like water and sunshine that impact this micro ecosystem).

Four-way soil was then added and topped with leafy compost, full of red wrigglers, as well as other beneficial bacteria and insects.

Most of the plants are to come, but today we started with the addition of our first companion planting of rhubarb, strawberry and mojito mint!

One filled, seven more to go at our at-home Living Lab 🌱 These additions are the first step toward more distinct pathways that are being developed. Large logs will go in between the barrels to outline the walkways, followed by a fresh layer of cedar chips 💅

Thanks to our volunteers today who came out and helped with setting up these additions, weeding and mulching in the food forest, and snacking on homemade guac and jalepeno poppers with bacon 🤤

Next Living Lab work party TBD! Follow here to learn about our next dates to join in.

#permaculture #permaculturedesign #foodforest #polyculture #companionplanting

While it doesn’t look like much yet, there are hundreds of native and edible plants here—just starting to wake up.

Under the surface, soil microbes and fungi have been working all winter, and now, with warming soil, that activity increases. Roots, active and exploring, begin pulling in more water and nutrients to fuel each plant’s Spring debut.

Inside each plant, stored energy is on the move. Sap rises, cells divide, and buds begin to swell—getting ready to burst into leaf.

A 7-layer food forest grows in every direction. Here’s a breakdown of the layers and some of the ways they show up in this particular food forest.

• Canopy (tall fruit & nut trees); California bay and black walnut
• Sub-canopy (small trees); hazelnut, fuyu persimmon, apple, plum
• Shrubs (woody perennials); rosemary, lavender, blue berry, goji berry
• Herbaceous (perennial medicinals and vegetables); mugwort, motherwort, feverfew, artichoke
• Ground cover (low, soil-covering plants); strawberry, thyme, love-in-a-mist
• Root layer (edible underground crops); sunchokes, radishes, carrots, beets
• Vertical (vines & climbers); kiwi berries, caucasian spinach, peas

All together, these plants stack functions, build soil, and create a resilient system that feeds both people and ecosystem.

#permaculture #spring #systemsthinking #foodforest #growfoodnotlawns

This Friday, 1:00pm-4:00pm, we have another Living Lab scheduled, followed by a meal from our garden! This week we’ll be playing with new beds, wine barrels and lining pathways with dug-in logs.

Topics we’ll aim to cover (depending on attendance and time) include designing and preparing pathways and beds, companion planting, as well as how to develop healthy soil.

Our UVD Living Labs include a homemade meal. This Friday we’ll be taking cardoons (similar to artichoke) from the garden and making a dish or two.

RSVP by Wednesday to reserve your spot! Just send us a DM and we’ll put you on the list.

As these events continue, we’re aiming to regularly feature dishes from our site in our own “garden-to-table” offering. We can’t wait to get dirty and share a meal with you 🌿

Thanks for all the hard work from our attendees two weeks ago 😁💪 @nikagriff @lanim00m00

#permaculture #permaculturedesign #sustainablelandscaping #foodforest #livingLab

Most people don’t think of soil as something that could teach us about how we live or work.

But beneath the surface is a living system built on relationships, structure, diversity, and exchange.
When those patterns are intact, the system thrives.
When they break down, everything above it feels the impact.

Over time, we’ve started to notice that these same patterns don’t stay in the soil. They show up in how we organize, collaborate, and relate — in landscapes, communities, and organizations.

Learning to recognize them changes how you begin to see everything.

#SoilFoodWeb
#LivingSystems
#PermacultureDesign
#SystemsThinking
#RegenerativeDesign

We have an involved design experience that brings our clients into a collaborative decision making process with us.

Through either one time consultations or full permaculture designs that span over time, a big aspect of designing with us is the education that we bring to those who will be stewarding those spaces for the long term.

It’s not enough to just present a design, or install one. Clients who choose permaculture design come with the anticipation they are, or will be, in an engaged relationship with the land—through the changing seasons of both nature and their own lives.

We take into consideration a very holistic understanding of these relationships that consider short and long term participation.

If you’re interested in figuring out best placement of elements and pathways, how they engage, and how more abundant relationships can be nurtured, get in touch about our permaculture consultations or design!

We offer a similar framework for the invisible structures that define communities and organizations, too!

#permaculturedesign #permaculture #livingsystems #ecologicallandscapes #sustainablelandscapes

The food forest is awakening! And integrated forest gardening is happening over here in our living lab.

Today peas are going in under this young, 4-way grafted apple tree.

Anyone else using their fruit tree as a trellis? Or have you in the past? How’d it go?

We’re all about the exploration over here—because hands on experience makes for the best way to accumulate embodied knowledge 🧠

#foodforest #permaculture #permaculturedesign #livingsystems #livinglab

We’ve now hosted two UVD Living Lab Work Parties!

You can read more about these work parties and how they came to be on The Urban Villager Substack publication. Link in bio.

We’ll be hosting our next Living Lab Work Party on Friday 3/27 from 1pm-4pm, with a farm to table meal served afterwards. This next meal will feature cardoons—a relative of the artichoke—straight out of our garden. DM to RSVP!

Thanks to @miakeeler for being our living lab model for this photo 🌿🤩 And for all your hands on help! 💪

#permaculture #permaculturedesign #livingsystems #farmtotabledinner #workparty

Some of the ideas in this post didn’t come from just books, degrees and certification programs— they came from real lived experience.

Years of working closely with landscapes started revealing patterns in how living systems grow and change.

Water finds pathways. Plants form relationships. Diversity strengthens resilience.

But interestingly, we noticed similar patterns as we were running our landscaping business with a team of up to ten staff members.

As time progressed, increased effort went into systems development for our team.

Communication flows. Evolving roles. Responding to challenges with policies and procedures to be trained and implemented.

Systems adapt when they’re healthy — and struggle when relationships break down.

As we progressed, it became hard to ignore that many of the same patterns run through all living systems — landscapes, communities, and organizations.

Learning to recognize those patterns has become central to how we approach design and consulting at Urban Village Designs. That’s exactly why we’re moving away from landscaping and towards greater focus on systems development.

Through pattern recognition and a deep understanding of living systems, we reveal what is already present and guide landscapes, communities, and organizations toward greater resilience.

#LivingSystems
#PermacultureDesign
#EcologicalDesign
#SystemsThinking
RegenerativeDesig

*Rare sighting of our UVD spiral rain garden* (it’s a full blown, lush forest spiral for the majority of the year).

Last weekend’s Living Lab Work Party focused on giving our spiral rain garden some seasonal care.

This rain garden is one of the more experimental features in our landscape. Instead of a typical basin, it follows a spiral form, slowing and spreading water through planted edges. It’s a bit unusual — and that’s intentional. Our landscape functions as a Living Lab, where we explore how regenerative design ideas evolve over time.

Rain gardens help capture stormwater, reduce runoff, recharge soil, and create habitat for plants and soil life. In a climate with heavier rains and longer dry periods, these kinds of water-holding landscapes are becoming increasingly valuable.

Our Living Lab Work Parties are a chance to learn about systems like these by participating in them.

We’ll be gathering again this Friday (3/13) from 1–4pm if you’d like to join us. Come spend some time with the land and help steward this ongoing experiment. DM us to RSVP and get the address.

#RainGarden
#PermacultureDesign
#LivingSystems
#RegenerativeLandscape
#PNWPermaculture

We started our work in landscaping, already experimenting with permaculture and regenerative design.

Over time, working closely with the land kept revealing something deeper. The biggest challenge wasn’t the land itself — it was how landscapes were being imagined. Many systems are still designed like machines to control rather than living systems that can evolve, adapt, and respond to changing conditions.

That realization eventually changed the direction of our work. We’re now focusing more on education and consulting, helping people recognize the patterns that connect landscapes, communities, and organizations as living systems.

Because the same patterns show up in all living systems.

This next chapter of our work will take shape through seasonal workshops, Living Laboratory work parties at our home base, and personalized design consultations — supporting everything from regenerative landscapes to the evolution of communities and organizations.

#LivingSystems
#RegenerativeDesign
#PermacultureDesign
#SystemsThinking
#RegenerativeFuture

UVD Living Laboratory Work Parties are officially underway 🤩

Yesterday we hosted the first of many gatherings on our ¾ acre home base — our UVD Living Laboratory.

These work parties are hands-on days where people come together to tend the land while learning about applied permaculture in an ecological landscape.

Participants can expect to:

🌱 Help create and tend to evolving regenerative systems
👀 See living systems in action and learn how they work
🌳 Explore food forests, rain gardens, compost systems, and animal integrations
🤝 Build community around nature care
🍅 Share food together or take home seasonal harvests

Over the past five years our property has slowly evolved into an interconnected landscape of food forests, rain gardens, compost systems, chickens, pollinator habitat, native and honey bees, and experimental plant guilds — all part of an ongoing conversation between soil, plants, animals, and people.

We’re looking forward to hosting more of these monthly work parties (2 per month in Spring/ Fall, 1 per month in the Summer) and have the opportunity to share all that we’ve been cultivating 🌿

Our next UVD Living Laboratory Work Party is happening Friday, March 13th from 1:00pm-4:00pm as we prep the annual garden and potentially start cleaning up the food forest! (As time and volunteers allow) 🌱 DM to RSVP and get our address.

Thank you to Friday’s volunteers 🙏😁 @miakeeler @westfalljacob and @nikagriff (pictured here! 📸)

#portlandpermaculture #permaculturedesign #pdxvolunteering #permaculture #pdxpermaculture

“Diversity is one of the greatest attributes of any system that we can encourage, whether that be in our soil or in our communities. This characteristic of a healthy system brings with it dynamic resilience—when one part fails, other aspects of the system can respond to fill a need, or in permaculture we might say a niche.

In soil, a robust community of bacteria, nematodes, protozoa, mycelium, arthropods (those who shred up organic material and others who prey on those smaller than them), are some of the key players in the very beginning of our food chain.

*Our* food chain. Not just the soil’s food chain. Those tiny insects, in particular the arthropods, go on to feed birds and fish, which larger animals prey upon. Many of us eat upon different parts of this animal food chain.

And these foundational building blocks of living creatures are at the heart of healthy food and medicine. Plant roots live in symbiosis with bacteria, mycelium and protozoa, who break down larger nutrients and make them more bioavailable to the plant. Larger insects process both larger carbon and nitrogen sources that get passed down along the food chain, making those parts a prime contributor to rich compost-y soil.“

Read more on our Substack publication, The Urban Villager! Link in bio.

#soilfoodweb #permaculture #permacultureeducation #permaculturedesign #sustainablelandscapes

Tips for beginning to prep our garden beds and pathways as Spring draws nearer:

🌾 It’s great time to weed! Moist soil loosens easier than when it’s dry. We focus on grasses, false dandelion and thistles where we don’t want them. Get that Himalayan blackberry out, too! Dandelion is a mostly welcome guest, but we pull it up from pathways and anywhere it’s too dense.

🐓 Those fresh leafy greens are most welcome by your flock. It’s one of the reasons why having your chicken run next to the garden is so helpful. Just throw your weeds over the fence and let them have at it!

🥀 Prune back the dead, but leave them on site. Many dried up stalks are home to a plethora of beneficial insects. You can also leave them in place and prune later, but for a more orderly feel, a side pile is the way to go.

🪱 Let roots rot in place. When cutting back old veggies, we leave their roots to rot in place. A whole world of bacteria, mycelium, arthropods and more will gladly make a snack out of those roots—and this next season’s plants will thank you for it!

👶 Hire a baby supervisor. The world is more interesting when you’re experiencing it through the eyes of someone who has only been observing it for less than one season. We all benefit from the beginner’s mind.

More prep coming next week!

#ecologicallandscaping #permaculture #permaculturedesign #stewardship #urbanchicken

I started a Substack specific to regenerative education and permaculture design called, “The Urban Villager.” This is where I’ll be exploring the urban village education I’m curating as we pivot to put more focus on our education offerings in the coming years (stay on the lookout for some upcoming events!).

In this week’s post, “Learning Ecosystems with Bioactive Vivariums,” I explore how these systems provided crucial, foundational knowledge and skill building for me as I have come to understand ecosystems, as well as the intricacies of the soil food web.

It’s my aim with every post at The Urban Villager to include a hand drawn design, both to hold myself accountable to growing my drawing skills and continuing the slow practice in resistance to the uptick in AI images we’re now seeing.

If you have Substack, I hope you follow The Urban Villager! Link in our @urbanvillagedesigns bio.

Image: Made by me @drakey.james and featuring the layers of a bioactive vivarium and one of my resident inhabitants, an Australian White’s Tree Frog.

#permaculture #regenerativeeducation #sustainability #regenerative #substack

Eco lawn —3 seasons in!

While getting established takes a little time, eco lawns are a wonderful addition to the landscape. They offer a diversity of plants, build resilient soil, benefit pollinators, help retain more moisture (which means less irrigation needs) and require less mowing and maintenance than the conventional lawn. Everyone should be making the transition to an ecolawn.

Now is a great time to get yours installed, or begin the conversation for an early Spring install. Because we work with the seasons, these are the only two seasons we do our ecolawn installs, and your landscape with thank you for it!

Get in touch to learn more 🌾🌼☘️🌱

#ecolawns #sustainablelandscaping #ecoscape #ecolawn #greenspaces #ecological #ecologicallandscaping #pdxlandscaping #milwaukielandscaping

Rewinding our yards and minds is a lot of the process toward healthy ecological landscapes, but it’s a hurdle. Why? Because we’ve been marketed landscapes that don’t have anything to do with diverse, multi-functional habitats. Conventional landscapes are all about clean lines and over manicured appearances, touting ornamental species that don’t benefit wildlife or us.

Plus, they rely on hyper-fertilization to make up for the unhealthy soil these practices are contributing to. These unsustainable and superficial values tell us the bugs are bad, so they get sprayed instead of being understood in the context of a functional and robust ecosystem. Soil suffers, plant suffers, animals suffer and we do, too.

There’s a lot we’ve been mis-taught while being sold on goals of the unsustainable yard, and it’s been majorly profited from along the way by big corporations who don’t particularly care about healthy human or more than humans communities. But that’s why we love this work… because we get to help educate and support more informed and eco-conscious cycles— and hopefully better nurture a healthier future for those that come after us.

{not sure who made this infographic… if you know please tell us and we’ll be sure to cite their work!)}

#ecologicallandscape #permaculture #sustainablelandscapes #permaculturedesign #milwaukieor #milwaukiebusiness #ecologicallandscaping #ecoeducation

We’re always working to integrate rather than segregate. Yes, chickens can be destructive to a garden when they’re in the wrong place at the wrong time. Ultimately they’re acting on instinct though—they’re drawn to foraging for fresh greens and insects that, when left in an enclosed urban environment, they tend to lose over time.

When we design landscapes with chickens, we consider this. How do we bring the plants and insects to them? In this run, blackberries and raspberries run along the fence lines. They’re prolific, and offer fresh shoots, leaves and berries at various times throughout the year. We’ve also planted a mulberry tree, which will eventually produce large plump berries of its own, surrounded by comfrey. A fence protects the tree and main parts of the comfrey, but the fast growing comfrey provides a regular snack for chickens walking by, who can pluck out the tips of leaves as they maneuver around it.

All of these options also produce additional protection from the elements and air predators.

When we care for the animals in our landscape, it is important that we consider these additional forms of enrichment. Anyone can buy an animal, but it is a conscious steward who seeks to improve life for all through their on-going care.

#ecologicalstewardship #landsteward #urbanfarm #urbanfarming #permaculture #pdxpermaculture #pdxlandscaper #earthstewardship #urbanflock #urbanchickens #permaculturedesign

Community share win! 🐝 🍯

Last night we were gifted this awesome Warre (pronounced war-ray) hive. This year we’ve been making the transition to natural bee keeping, moving away from conventional bee keeping practices and embracing more holistic models of honey bee care. Thus, in the coming seasons we’ll be using both the Warre hive and horizontal hives instead of Langstroth.

If you’re on signal, I created a Naturalistic Beekeeping group for those who want to have a community space to explore how to best support bees by looking to nature as our guide. Let us know if you’d like to be added to it! Also drop👇your favorite books and resources on sustainable and regenerative bee keeping practices!

#naturalisticbeekeeping #warrehive #honeybees #beehive #apiary #sustainablebeekeeping #pdxbeekeeping #beekeepers #beekeeperslife

Throwing it back to this beautiful install, as apparently these photos never made it on here! As part of a bigger design we completed, this area showcases sustainable juniper wood planting boxes, including one with a small vermiculture composting unit.

Our current design process is slow, to give us time to get to know you and your landscape. In fact, we’re prioritizing clients who want on-going stewardship for some time before jumping into design. Doing so gives us a chance to know your landscape through the seasons, as well as take note about who and how the space is utilized over time. These observations are crucial in coming up with a landscape design that is functional. It also gives us time to build the soil and resources on site as we move toward an eventual installation, and set proper expectations about the years long process is takes to build truly sustainable and regenerative landscapes (because it doesn’t happen over night, nor does it happen in just a year!).

Curious to get on our stewardship schedule? Get in touch for a consultation! We’ll be at the Milwaukie Sustainability Fair tomorrow if you want to learn more!

#milwaukiebusiness #pdxlandscapers #permaculture #ecologicallandscapes #sustainablelandscaping #permaculturedesign

Join @urbanvillagedesigns and @osaltorg on November 9th, from 10:00am-2:00pm at the @yamanebosefoodforest in Milwaukie, Oregon for this Fall Time Permaculture event!

In this workshop, we’ll explore permaculture techniques as we transition from summer to fall, embracing abundance (and excess), building our beds and preparing the land and ourselves for the fast approaching time of rest.

Through community building, experienced instruction, guided observation, as well as hands on practice building beds and preparing them for the winter, participants will walk away inspired and eager to tend to their own beds at home.

Please RSVP to reserve your spot! $35 fee covers instruction, snacks and refreshments. Register by emailing Drake with your full name, phone number and email at Drake@urbanvillagedesigns.com. Payment to reserve via Venmo @urbanvillagedesigns or Zelle to drake@urbanvillagedesigns.com.

Learn more about this event in the @urbanvillagedesigns bio!

#milwaukieevents #pdxsustainability #foodforests #permaculture #permaculturedesign #pdxpermaculture #milwaukiebusiness #pdxnonprofit

We love doing real estate clean ups! Over the years we’ve worked with multiple realtors and home owners to transform unruly landscapes into picture perfect homes.

We always work to complete our work as sustainably as possible—if you’re a homeowner or realtor who prioritizes local community relationships and a high standard of sustainable values, we’re the husband and wife team to call upon!

Scroll to check out some afters and befores of this recent property 🙌

#sustainablelandscaping #realestatecleanups #pdxbusiness #milwaukieoregon #milwaukiebusiness #ecologicallandscaping #pdxlandscaper

Just a reminder that when you plant flowers that support pollinators, you’ll bring all kinds of bees to your yard—and they really need all the flowers they can get!! Oregon in particular has something like 500+ different bee species. When you plant diverse species of flowering plants, you’ll be amazed at the visitors you’ll find buzzing about, like this metallic sweat bee. Maybe you’ve seen her flying around lately?

#plantpollinators #pesticidefreezone #backyardhabitat #permaculture #pdxpermaculture #sustainablelandscaping #milwaukieor #pdx #pdxgardens #sustainablegardening

Progress photos! 🤩 There’s been a lot of work happening on this site over the last couple of months, and we’ve loved getting to work collaboratively with @pdxpermaculture to materialize the vision. 🌿

Scroll to the last two photos to see the before shots!

#pdxpermaculture #permaculture #pdxlandscaping #ecologicallandscaping #inprogress #sustainablelandscaping #naturetrail #milwaukiebusiness

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Urban Village Designs works with land, people, and organizations as interconnected living systems. I support projects that go beyond site design—integrating ecology, infrastructure, and human systems to create places that are regenerative, resilient, and able to evolve over time.

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Urban Village Designs works with land, people, and organizations as interconnected living systems.

I support projects that go beyond site design—integrating ecology, infrastructure, and human systems to create places that are regenerative, resilient, and able to evolve over time.